“I just don’t think that they should be prosecuting cases for people who steal from Wal-Mart. I Just don’t think that. I don’t think that Target, and all them other places – the big boxes that have insurance – they should be using the people that steal from there as justification to start engaging in aggressive police practices.”

Aside from Mitchell tarnishing any possibility of ever getting a job at Wal-Mart, he is seen here advocating for legal relativism – the notion that communities should decide for themselves which laws should be enforced and which laws should not based on what the community deems as law.

Does Wal-Mart get to vote in what the community deems as law Mr. Mitchell? They are of course, part of the community.

Mr. Mitchell isn’t the only University of Wisconsin-Madison professor to voice their opinions on policing within communities. Just three weeks ago, SoCawlege wrote about fellow UW-Madison professors Karma R. Chàvez and Sara L. McKinnon who penned a letter to the Capital Times entitled, “Sara L. McKinnon and Karma Chàvez: Request for no police interaction is reasonable” In the letter, they write that police are an “occupying force” and lack justification for patrolling in certain neighborhoods.